What do you mean it won't have any effect on the files on the server? Why is that? I read that java applets aren't allowed to read or write to files fullstop but i can certainly read from a file so I ...

First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.

Wikipedia may be the most high-profile example of a user-edited wiki site, but millions of people around the world are setting up wikis for knowledge-sharing on a smaller scale. In this article, ...